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Are chocolate maccabees considered statues and not allowed?
I was just browsing through kosher gift baskets for Channukah. All they had was chocolate Torahs, a Channukiah, Dreidels, and Jewish Stars.
Then I remembered how I used to love getting and eating chocolate maccabees during Channukah.
Is it frum or not frum to eat chocolate people?
FYI: According to their website, this company sells Cholov Yisroel, non-Cholov Yisroel Dairy, and Pareve chocolates.
Interestingly, the company also sells Christmas chocolates. I imagine that this must be a nice hakaras hatov way to treat co-workers and friends.
It’s just weird. Eating an effigy of something should probably be reserved for things that you would actually want to eat.
I just Googled it. Seems they’re just their Christmas chocolates in different wrapping.
It is also weird to eat non-food inanimate objects, but not as bad as eating people.
My kids eat lion and bear and giraffe animal cookies with the best hechsherim. And we make homemade cookies using dreidle, menora, and elephant cookie cutters for chanuka.
LB, I have heard that chabad is very makpid about not having non-kosher animals around- not even in picture books or as toys. So instead of teddy bears, the kids will have stuffed lambs or cows. I don’t know if they eat animal cookies. You don’t find that among other types of frum Jews, although many will not have an impure animal as a pet. I don’t think anyone (other than maybe Chabad?) has an issue with animal crackers, no matter what age the child. My kids do not confuse eating a lion cookie with the real thing.
There’s no problem with alphabet-shaped food not on Shabbos/ Yom Tov.
(Shabbos/Yom Tov might not be much of a problem either,
depending on the food in question.)
Winnie, why do you mention giraffe animal crackers? Giraffes are kosher. No one eats them, for a variety of reasons like being protected species and not having a strong mesorah. But when my firstborn was a baby a Chabad friend gave us a bunting with giraffes and was pleased that she had found something with a kosher animal.
I was just trying to remember what kind of animals were in the package, other than the animals that we usually eat. I guess giraffe was a bad example.
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